7.3.3 DELETEing resources

Suppose that Taco Cloud no longer offers an ingredient and wants it completely removed as an option. To make that happen, you can call the delete() method from RestTemplate as follows:

public void deleteIngredient(Ingredient ingredient) {
  rest.delete("http://localhost:8080/ingredients/{id}",
              ingredient.getId());
  }

In this example, only the URL (specified as a String) and a URL variable value are given to delete(). But as with the other RestTemplate methods, the URL could be specified as a URI object or the URL parameters given as a Map.